Complete transcript of Sam Grobart’s interview; I found this much more interesting than the cover story that resulted from it. This bit from Federighi, on what it’s like working for Tim Cook, caught my eye:

Oftentimes, a product’s design requires manufacturing to solve
unreasonable problems. That’s the same as engineering a user
interface design. Both are about just solving these crazy
problems. But you never get a sense from Tim or from Jeff [Jeff
Williams, Apple’s current operations chief] that there’s a
question about why are we solving this. Why aren’t we taking an
easy way out and sidestepping this problem? It is, “No, this is
the right design, and we’re going to do things that no one else in
the world has ever tried to do in order to get it right.”

I think if I bought [an Android tablet] and used it, and I
thought that was a tablet experience, I’m not sure I would ever
buy another tablet. The responsiveness isn’t there. The basic
touch is really off. The app experience is a stretched-out
smartphone kind of experience. It’s not an optimized experience.
However, that said, I have always said that the tablet market was
going to surpass the PC market. I was saying that well before it
was viewed to be sane to say that. It’s clear that we’re 24
months away from that.